Qiskit simulation not taking in the basis gates listed in pass manager

Question

I was trying to simulate some circuits using the QASM simulator via IBM Quantum Computing Lab online.

q = QuantumRegister(qubit_count)
c = ClassicalRegister(qubit_count)
circuits = []
for ghz_size in range(2,qubit_count+1):
    qc = QuantumCircuit(q, c)
    qc.h(q[0])
    for s in range(ghz_size-1):
        qc.cx(q[s], q[s+1])
    qc.barrier()
    qc.measure(q, c)
    circuits.append(qc)

I have specified the basis gates to be as

pm = PassManager()
pm.append(Unroller(['u1', 'u2', 'u3', 'cx', 'id']))
sim_data_sets = {} #set up data structure
for l in labels:
    sim_data_sets[l] = []

Now, when I loop through a list of noise models to produce simulated results, I realised that it is not using these specified basis gates. Here's a small section of the code (not sufficient to reproduce the results)

for s in range(num_sims_per_model):
                job_sim = execute(circuits[c], backend, shots=shots,
                                  pass_manager = pm,
                                  optimization_level=0,
                                  noise_model=noise_models[nm],
                                  #basis_gates=noise_models[nm].basis_gates
                                 )

And here's a small part of the output

---Simulating noise case 2-qubit Average Model ---
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Starting circuit 0
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NoiseModel:
  Basis gates: ['cx', 'id', 'rz', 'sx']
  Instructions with noise: ['cx', 'measure']
  All-qubits errors: ['cx', 'measure']

Answer 1

This behavior is already documented for example here:

The command AerSimulator(noise_model=noise_model) returns a simulator configured to the given noise model. In addition to setting the simulator’s noise model, it also overrides the simulator’s basis gates, according to the gates of the noise model.